Hebman beinecke



(ModeL) H. REINEGKE.

Traveling Clock.

No. 234,612. Patented Nov. 16,1880.

N4 PETERS, PHOTO UTHDCRAFHER UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN-REINEOKE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE MERRITT, OF SAME PLACE.

TRAVELING CLOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,612, dated November 16, 1880. Application filed May 8, 1880. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, HERMAN BEINEGKE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Traveling Clocks and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in

which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved train, the front plate being broken away to give a view of the parts beneath the platform. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same from the rear, the rear plate being removed,

and Fig. 3 is an elevation from one side.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

My invention belongs to a class of clocks in which the balance-wheel and escapement are arranged to move in a horizontal plane; and it consists in a clock in which the connection between the main train and the platform-train is made at a point between the center wheel and the wheel next in rear of the escape-wheel, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.

In the annexed drawings, A and B represent the frontand back plates of my movement,

connected together at suitable points by means of pillars O, in the usual manner.

J ournaled within and between the plates A and B is a spring-wheel, D, second-wheel E, center wheel F, and a contrate-wheel, G, which 3 5 wheels are arranged from below upward in the order named, and each meshes with and imparts motion to a pinion, c,f, or g, upon the staff of the next higher wheel of the train.

The contrate'wheel G meshes with a pinion,

40 h, that is secured upon a vertical staff, h,

which stafi is journaled within suitable bearings upon orattached to ahorizontal platform,

I, that is attached to and extends across the upper ends of the plates A and B. Upon the 4 5 staff h, above the pinion h, is secured a wheel,

H, which meshes with the pinion 7c of an escape-wheel, K, thelatter, the escapement, and the balance being pivoted upon the platform I beneath a suitable bridge, L.

While the connection between the main 5o train and the horizontal train is, preferably, made at the pinion hof the wheel H, such connection may be made, if desired, at any point near the spring-wheel D, but not with the pinion 7a of the escape-wheel K.

By reason of this construction less delicacy is required in depthing the teeth of the contrate-wheel and the pinion tha-tit meshes with, as the teeth of said wheel and pinion increase in size as they recede in position from the es- 6o capement, and variations in depthing are of less consequence, and friction resulting from such variations is more easily overcome.

In addition to the advantages named I am enabled to employ much smaller wheels hav- 6 ingfirm teeth between the contrate-wheel and the escapement than upon the other side of said contrate-wheel, in consequence of which there is less momentum and inertia to overcome in stoppingandstarting the escape-wheel than would otherwise be the case.

While the arrangement of the horizontal train upon the upper side of the platform is preferably employed, said train may be wholly or in part arranged above or below said platform, or it may, in part, be placed upon a secon (1 lower platform.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, what 1 claim as new is- A clock in which the connection between the main train and the platform-train is made at a point between the center wheel and the wheel next in rear of the escapewheel, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 85

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of April, 1880.

H. REINEOKE. Vitnesses:

GEO. S. PRINDLE, CHARLES M. WEMMELL. 

